asb-skills

Public Claude Code skills implementing frameworks from A Smart Bear and Hidden Multipliers.

Browse the skills at skills.asmartbear.com.

Install the skills

With the skills CLI — installs into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and dozens of other coding agents, and stays updatable:

npx skills add asmartbear/asb-skills          # all skills (prompts per agent)
npx skills add asmartbear/asb-skills --skill asb-positioning   # just one
npx skills update                             # pull future improvements

As a Claude Code plugin — this repo is also a plugin marketplace. From within Claude Code:

/plugin marketplace add asmartbear/asb-skills
/plugin install asb-skills@asb-skills

Update later with /plugin marketplace update asb-skills.

By hand — every skill is a single self-contained markdown file at .claude/skills/asb-<name>/SKILL.md; copy it into your own ~/.claude/skills/asb-<name>/SKILL.md. A ZIP of all skills and per-skill copy buttons are on the install page.

Where the skills live

• .claude/skills/asb-<name>/SKILL.md — the canonical, single source of truth for every public skill. No build step, no generated copies; the website, the ZIP, the CLI, and the plugin marketplace all serve these exact files.
• dev-skills/<name>/ (no asb- prefix) — dev-only tooling for working in this repo, loaded into local Claude Code sessions via symlinks in .claude/skills/. Never distributed: the skills CLI doesn't follow symlinks, and their frontmatter carries metadata.internal: true.
• .claude-plugin/marketplace.json, plugins/asb-skills/ (the Claude Code plugin: a manifest plus symlinks to the public skills), and skills.sh.json — distribution artifacts, generated by bun run gen-manifests. Don't edit by hand.

Develop

bun install, then see CLAUDE.md for commands and the project rules (especially the public/dev-only skill distinction and the "kinds of changes" guide).

License

Skill content is licensed under CC BY 4.0 (see LICENSE) — reuse freely with attribution to Jason Cohen / A Smart Bear. The website code in this repo is not separately licensed for reuse.

Future

Ideas worth doing once the catalog grows or the priority changes. Not backlog items in any tracked sense — just a parking lot.

• skills.sh badge. The repo appears on skills.sh automatically once people install via npx skills add; when it does, add the install-count badge to this README: [![skills.sh](https://skills.sh/b/asmartbear/asb-skills)](https://skills.sh/asmartbear/asb-skills).
• One section per chapter (plus an "Articles" section). Not categories/tags as such — instead a section per chapter of Hidden Multipliers for the skills drawn from that chapter, and one "Articles" section for skills drawn from A Smart Bear articles that aren't in the book. Hold off until we have more skills built; it'll be easier to see what this should look like with real data, and we want to pile more in before adding the structure. (Alternative groupings worth considering when we do it — by problem the reader has, or by stage of company.)
• Sort/filter strip on the home page (Featured · Newest · All). Worth it once there are 6+ skills.
• "Recently added" rail on the home page. A single horizontal row at the top of the home page surfacing the newest skill (or the next-most- recently-updated one). Gives the home page a sense of motion. Useful once there's a steady cadence of new skills.

Future skills

The backlog of skill ideas — each with its source article/chapter citations ready for forging — lives in BACKLOG.md.